Jakayla
#3,798 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jakayla has been given to 6,840 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #3,798 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 451 recorded.
Babies named Jakayla, 2025
1 in 85,000
Jakayla over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jakayla?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 85,000
- 39 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 41,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,798
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 58,922 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jakayla sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jakayla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jakaylas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jakayla was born before 2008 — so the typical Jakayla is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 50.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 85.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 6,840
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 50.9% of all recorded uses (3,482).
Is Jakayla rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +56
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,866
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,421
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.23×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 8.6%
- Peak was 2008 (451)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.6% average annual change
Spellings of Jakayla
Jakayla is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 54.7% against Jakayla's 1.1%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Jakayla is used
Across 2016–2025, Jakayla was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,429 girls, against 1 in 12,795 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 1,429
- 2Alabama1 in 3,333
- 3Louisiana1 in 3,846
- 4South Carolina1 in 4,167
- 5Georgia1 in 5,000
- 6North Carolina1 in 6,250
- 7Tennessee1 in 6,250
- 8Arkansas1 in 7,692
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Jakayla around the world
Where Jakayla ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2007–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jakayla by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jakayla
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Jakayla
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jakayla, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Jakayla
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.